Posted on 05/24/2013 6:17:17 PM PDT by oxcart
Or a contained fan blade failure.
I’m sure it could have been a bird strike, but such engines are tested with all sizes of (grocery store prepared) chickens and turkeys to validate that any such strike won’t threaten the safety of a flight.
HF
I thought it was two guys trying to get into the flight deck. Whom to believe??????
Birds....
Different flight. Although that could have been birds, too.
UK investigators have opened an inquiry into the British Airways Airbus A319 incident at London Heathrow which resulted in substantial damage to both engines.
Images show that the fan cowl doors on both engines have been torn away, with clear discolouration on the rear of the starboard International Aero Engines V2500 powerplant.
The UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch says it has started a probe into the event involving the aircraft (G-EUOE) which had just taken off as flight BA762 to Oslo.
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Guess I should read more closely.
Just another day at the office.....
Gonna cost a lot of Pounds to steam clean all those seats.
Looking at those pictures, I’m not sure it was completely contained. That engine is a mess.
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“Eye-witnesses reported seeing a fire in the right-hand engine of the Airbus 319...”
The number 19 strikes again!
Images show that the fan cowl doors on both engines have been torn away,
Two different planes, one flight leaving Heathrow suffered an engine failure.
second plane, enroute from Pakistan to Manchester had the two d!ckheads trying to breach the cockpit!
TWO engine failures.
It's looking like ground maintenance failed to properly latch the engine covers, and they blew off both engines during the first few minutes of flight.
Video from onboard: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2013/may/24/heathrow-emergency-landing-from-plane-video
Totally agree with you. I’m just making fun of the
Suggestions that it was grounded by a bird strike will form part of the investigation.
For one possibility see this thread:
“FAQ: The V1-VR Terrorist Runway Kill Zone (RKZ) Frequently Asked Questions”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3015719/posts
“If any two engines on a large multi-engine jet can be disabled in the RKZ by a terrorist attack, the aircraft will not be able to gain enough altitude to return to the airport and will almost certainly crash. The availability of inexpensive, GPS-guided autonomous model aircraft and helicopters (drones and UAVs) that are capable of precisely targeting the runway path of each jet engine in the RKZ makes terrorist attacks increasingly probable.”
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